Bracket for adjustably mounting oil burners



INVENTORS JULIUS s. GOLDBERG ARTHUR A.MARCUS BY ATTOQNEY A. A. MARCUS ET AL BRACKET FOR ADJUSTABLY MOUNTING OIL BURNERS Flled Feb 1 1949 "IIHII June 24, 1952 Patented June 24, 1952 OFFICE BRACKET FOR ADJ USTABLY MOUNTING OIL BURNERS Arthur A. Marcus and Julius S. Goldberg, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Application February 1, 1949, Serial No. 73,954

2 Claims.

This invention relates to oil burner furnace and boiler installations and more particularly is directed to an improved mounting support in the form of an angle bracket fitting for oil burners which among other features of improvements permits ready adjustment of oil burners in furnace and boiler installations.

Among the objects of the invention is to generally improve oil burner support mountings of the character described which shall comprise few and simple parts, which shall be cheap to manufacture and install, which affords ready means for accommodating mountingof oil burners of various constructions and manufacture to be easily made in furnace and boiler installations which permits quick and easy removal of mounted oil burners, which allows adjustments of the flame nozzle of oil burners to be positioned in a wide range of positions with respect to the furnace or boiler, and which shall be practical and efiicient to a high degree in use.

Other objects of the invention will in part be obvious and in part hereinafter pointed out.

The invention accordingly consists of features of construction, combination of elements and arrangements of parts which will be exemplified in the construction hereinafter disclosed, the scope of the application of which will be indicated in the claims following.

In the accompanying drawing in which one embodiment of the invention is shown,

Figs. 1 and 2 are front and side elevational views, respectively, showing a fragmentary portion of a furnace wall with the improved angle bracket fitting constructed to embody the invention adjustably supporting an oil burner in an operating position thereon.

Fig. 3 is a side elevational view similar to Fig. 2, partly broken away, to show the construction of the improved bracket fitting.

Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the improved bracket fitting shown in Fig. 1 with the oil burner removed therefrom.

Fig. 5 is a top plan view similar to Fig. 4, except that the horizontally disposed platform formed with a slideway is of modified construction to accommodate a different oil burner anchoring mounting means.

Figs. 4a and 5a are fragmentary sectional views showing releasable platform fastening means corresponding to the improved angle bracket fitting constructions shown in Figs. 4 and 5, respectively.

In the construction, installation and maintenance of furnaces and boilers using oil burner equipment, it has been found desirable and con- 2 venient to provide an improved mounting support so that the installation can be readily serviced and the oil burner fiame nozzle adjusted in position for most favorable and eificient operation. To that end there is provided, as shown in the drawing, an improved mounting support in the form of an angle bracket fitting denoted generally as III, which may comprise an annular collar or fiange II having a central opening Ila which when of circular cross sectional shape is positioned in registered alignment with an inlet passage P of a furnace or boiler vertical wall F, only a fragmentary portion of which is shown.

Annular flange II may be provided with suitable fastening means, such as spaced apart bolts I2 for rigidly securing the fitting III in position to wall F, as shown in Figs. 1 to 5.

Extending horizontally outward from wall F in substantially a plane at right angles thereto, and preferably integrally formed with a portion Nb of annular flange II at a level below said opening IIa, there is an elongated horizontal supporting platform I3 on which an oil burner B is mounted with the nozzle N thereof extending to be in registered alignment with furnace wall inlet passage P.

Supporting platform I3 may be constructed with a longitudinally extending slot I3a extending midway therethrough, the rim edges I3b of which provide a slideway into which anchoring screw stud S extends down from the oil burner B.

Said slot rim edges I3b may be downturned to serve as undertracks as at I3c against which a,

thumb and finger nut T mounted on said stud S rides for releasably but firmly securing the oil burner B in position as clear from Figs. 2, 3, 4 and 4a. The free end of platform I3 opposite the collar I I may be downturned to form a fiange or rib I3g which connects or merges with the undertracks I30, serves as an end closure for slot I30, and a reinforcing for platform I3.

Angle bracket fitting III preferably is made of cast or mold metal and may have end portions I3d at the supporting platform I3 adjacent the collar II extended on opposite sides and slot end I3e therebetween enlarged for clearance as seen 1n Fig. 4. The upper rim edges of said slot end I 32 may be extended to provide upstanding arcuate shaped fins or wing fillets I3f which strengthens and reinforces the overhanging suspension of platform I3 from annular fiange I I, said fillets I 3] being molded as spaced integral tension members between said platform shown in Figs. 2, 3 and 4.

In using the invention, angle bracket fitting I0 I3 and flange II, as

after being constructed as above described and shown in the drawing, is rigidly secured to a furnace boiler wall F by means of bolts [2 extending through flange II with opening lid in registered alignment with said inlet passage P. Oil burner B may then be firmly mounted on support ing platform I3 with anchoring stud S extending through slot 13a and thumb and finger nut T screwed on said stud S against undertracks 130. Oil burner nozzle N may be adjusted with relation to opening I la and passage P for most favorable and eflicient operation, and oil burner B readily replaced, inspected and given service maintenance by simply removing said nut T and thereby releasing the oil burner B from fitting H! as a unit for dismounting.

In Figs. 5 and 5a a modified construction of oil burner mounting is provided. Where such oil burner B has a down extension E, an elongated slot ll3a of greater width than that of slot 13a in platform Il3 may be used into which extension E is slidingly fitted, a washer W and clamp bolt C being supplied for rigidly securing oil burner B in a desired adjusted position in the same manner as described above using stud S and nut T, the annual flange II and fillets I31 being structurally similar in both forms shown as above described. v

It will thus be seen that there is provided a bracket fitting for adjustable oil burner mounting whereby the several objects of this invention are achieved and which is Well adapted to meet the conditions of practical use.

I As various possible embodiments might be made of the above invention, and as various changes might be made in the embodiments above set forth, it is to be understood that all matter herein set forth or shown in the accompanying drawings is to be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. An angle bracket fitting for mounting an oil burner with the nozzle thereof in alignment with an inlet passage of a furnace comprising an annular flange having an opening for registering with said inlet passage, means for mounting said flange against a substantially vertically extending wall of said furnace, an elongated supporting platform extending in angular relation to said flange and spaced from said flange opening, said platform having a straight slot extending lengthwise through a mid-portion thereof, an end portion of said platform adjacent the flange being of increased width and having said slot terminate thereat in an enlargement of curved contour, and spaced apart arcuate shaped wing fillets interconnecting the flange with rim of said slot enlargement positioned free from portions of an oil burner mounted on said platform, rim edges of said slot being downturned to form undertraclzs for adjustable anchoring means from said oil burner.

2. The angle bracket fitting defined in claim 1 including a rib terminating the platform extending the width thereof and merging with said undertracks for reinforcing the platform structure.

ARTHUR A. MARCUS. JULIUS S. GOLDBERG.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Lechtenberg g Aug. 9. 1949 

